A mob of veterans break into the Oakland, California hq of the Communist Labor Party, destroying it and burning furniture and literature. The police were warned in advance, but chose not to protect the building. The mob leaves a note: “Hereafter, Oakland will be unsafe for radicals and for anti-Government propaganda. Law and order shall prevail.” Some law. Some order.
Wobblies are arrested all over Washington State, following the Centralia contretemps.
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer plans to deport radicals to Russia, but won’t say to what part of Russia.
Lady Nancy Astor accuses the Labour candidate running against her of being “a red-hot independent of the type that advocates all sorts of Trotsky-tainted issues.”
I went to my doctor with Trotsky-tainted issues and he prescribed an ointment.
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